Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-03-11
THE LEGISLATURE.
Unlimited Provision for the
Expenditure of Money.
The Cash Discussing End Of the
Session Draws Heavily on the
Treasury.
COUNCIL.

COONS1La
Bismarck, March I0-Iu the council
council bills passed.
Allowing religious and educational
interpretations I'll increase of directors
to twenty-one; also authorizing county
commissioners to compromise dslin-
quent taxes at not less than cne-querter
thereof; also permitting change of the
number of directors and location of in.
corporations: also retunding certain ter
ritorial bonds at ~ per cent; also pro-
viding for the dissolution OF civil town.
ships; also for the publication Of laws in
newspapers; also providing for struck
inries; also amending the drawing Of
jurors; also appropE,ating $3.50. 600 for
improvements of Jamestown hospital for
the insane; also for Che payment of
newspapers furnished members of the
Legislature; also increasing the terri.
toriAl tIeasurer's bond $250.6o9; also
giving the governors Office $1,000 IN
nuaily for clerk hire; also permitting the
governor to remove public examiners;
also paying the chairman OF the engross.
ing committee $50 for extra services.
Tue council passed house bills:
For the payment of printing biennial
reports; also to insure better education
OF dentists; also changing the name VI
the Dakota Agricultural Investment som
pany also putting the steward of insane
hospitals under the direction OF the
superintendent; also providing for the
compilation OF the general laws OF the
territory; also pertaining to artesian
wells; also relating to FALSE padigrees oil
ANIMALS; also appropriating $4,000 fol
finishing and improvements OF the Yer
million university; also amending the
department. of agricultural and territor-
ial fairs; also for suppressing pluero'
pneumonia; also for suppressing sheer
diseases; also authorizing the erection
of county buildings; also appropriatine
$4,000 for the encouragement Of hort.
culture.
Recess till evening.
The house continued the contest or
the repeal of the gross earnings law, and
the friends OF repeal finally triumphed
The bill ,ane mp for passage IN the
regular order.
Aikens made a splendid fight for the
repeal of the gross. earnings law, but
the bill was defeated.
The house passed council bills:
Appropriating $4,000 bonds for the
Springfield normal school; also relating
to the selection of Jurors, also permitting
the funding OF outstanding school bonds
also appropriating funds for hearing
cases by Judges at chambers; also relat
ing to cases of foreclosure of mortgage
by advertisement; also regulating the
practice OF pharmacy.
Recess till evening.
RIFT, yETOED
The governor vetoed the house bill
relating to q soldiers home at Hot
Springs, the appropriation being Inade-
quate and the home not needed.
COMBINATIONS.
The council confirmed Templetun
encouragement. and Harris. public ex-
aminer. MAJ. EdwaFds' nomination as
public examiner was Withdrawn, and E
8. Tyler, OF Fargo. appointed.
The council confirmed the Bismarck
penisentiary board aud the following
PlAnkinson reform school board, Stevens
OF P~lankinton; Hammer, of Mitchell
Kinsella. OF Kimball; Anderson, Of
Yolga: Distad. of Mitchell.
COMING N~oMINATIONS.
The following nominations for COM
pliers of laws will be made tomorrow
p. w. Caldwell, of Sioux Falls, and Chss,
II. Price, of Highmore.